B52B:
Coastal Wetland Carbon: Recent Advances in Measurements, Modeling, and Syntheses III

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Session ID#: 32006

Session Description:
Coastal marshes, mangroves, and seagrass sequester significant amounts of “blue carbon” in soils, sediments, and biomass. Complex interactions of climate, land use, sea level, species composition, and human management regulate the strength of the carbon sinks and the greenhouse gas balance. Our ability to measure and model the vertical (atmospheric) and lateral (hydrologic) exchanges of blue carbon at the land-ocean interface is limited. Their ecosystem services and the associated values of conservation and restoration in mitigating climate change have only recently been recognized by policymakers, coastal managers, and society at large. We aim to bring together biogeochemists, wetland ecologists, geomorphologists, earth system modelers, ecological engineers, and social scientists to discuss coastal blue carbon pools and fluxes, and their roles in global carbon cycling and climate change mitigation. We also aim to report recent advances in measurement methods, modeling, and synthesis results that can support carbon accounting in coastal wetland ecosystems.
Primary Convener:  Jianwu Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States, Kevin D Kroeger, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Lisamarie Windham-Myers, USGS, State of California's Delta Stewardship Council, Sacramento, United States
Chairs:  Kevin D Kroeger, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lisamarie Windham-Myers, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0442 Estuarine and nearshore processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0497 Wetlands [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Local and regional scale exchanges of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) between tidal wetlands and their adjacent coastal waters (226414)
Chris L Osburn, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, Ishan Joshi, Louisiana State University, Marie Cindy Lebrasse, North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, Diana Oviedo-Vargas, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, United States, Thomas S S Bianchi, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Delwayne R Bohnenstiehl, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States, Eurico J. D'Sa, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Ruoying He, NC State University, Raleigh, United States, Dong Shan Ko, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Ana Arellano, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States and Nicholas D Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Stronger ecosystem CO2 exchange capacity but higher lateral carbon loss of mangrove wetlands over terrestrial forests (250337)
Guanghui Lin1, Xiaowei Cui2, Weixiu Gan2, Weizhi LU3, Guirui Yu4 and Yiqi Luo5, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (3)State Oceanic Administration, Dalian, China, (4)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Sciences and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, United States
Contrasting Extreme Flooding Events and their Influence on Carbon Dynamics in a Salt Marsh (258745)
Prof. Rodrigo Vargas1, Natalia Kowalska2, Alma Vazquez Lule3, Angelia Seyfferth3, Janet Reimer4, Wei-Jun Cai5 and Carlos F Moffat6, (1)University of Delaware, Water Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (4)Southeast Ocean and Coastal Acidification Network, Charleston, United States, (5)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (6)COPAS Sur-Austral Program, Department of Oceanography, U. of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of Eddy-Covariance Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Above an Urban Wetland, Partitioned by Vegetation Cover (258880)
Tomer Duman, Rutgers University, Department of Biological Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States and Karina V Schafer, Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States
Interannual variability in CO2 and CH4 exchange in a brackish tidal marsh in Northern California (282199)
Sara H Knox, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Moffett Field, United States, Frank E Anderson, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States and Brian A Bergamaschi, USGS Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Time series measurements of carbon fluxes from a mangrove-dominated estuary (295135)
Chiara Volta, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, David T Ho, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, Gernot Friederich, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Carlos E Del Castillo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Victor C Engel, US Forest Service Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Mahadev Bhat, Florida International University, Department of Environmental Studies, Miami, FL, United States

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